User talk:Janelied

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Reverts at Donna Strickland
Hello Jane,

Once again, welcome. I noticed you tried to make a couple of edits to Donna Strickland, but they got reverted. I didn't want you to feel discouraged about editing, so I wanted to comment about that, and leave you some tips.

There's nothing wrong with the content you added per se, but that article wasn't the right place for it. Each of your edits seem to concern gender inequality issues, and the struggles that women go through in order to have their contributions duly recognized. In the first edit, it had to do with negative reactions of male students to her high performance. In the second edit, you added a whole new section, "Gender Roles in Science", about "issue[s] that ha[ve] been brought up since Strickland's Nobel Prize win." But this is not a new issue (you could say it is millenia old), and does not depend on Strickland, and so does not belong in a biographical article about Strickland, though it may be appropriate in some other article.

Wikipedia has some "WikiProjects" that help organize like-minded people into groups that tackle an area of interest to the group. A complete project directory is here. One WikiProject I thought you might like to read about and perhaps join, is the Gender gap task force. If you go to the Gender gap's talk page, you can add a section about the type of material you tried to add to the Strickland article, and ask for suggestions about where you could add the content instead, and I'm sure they would have some good suggestions for you. You might also want to check out WikiProject Women, Feminism, and Women in Red.

I don't want you to feel discouraged that your first two edits were reverted. It looks like you know how to find sources, and you know how to create a footnote (although see WP:BAREURL and Help:Footnotes for more details on creating complete citations). The encyclopedia could benefit from the efforts of an editor like you. So, I encourage you to stick around, and try again. Editing help and tutorials are available, and plenty of experienced editors here are happy to give advice. Perhaps User:GreenMeansGo or User:Home Lander who also have edited at the Strickland article, might have some suggestions for you. You can also post a request for help here on your talk page: just add a new section below, and add the token  anywhere in your request, and an experienced editor will be along shortly to answer your question.

I hope this helps, and don't hesitate to contact me on my talk page. Mathglot (talk) 23:25, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * By the way, the material you added that got reverted is not "gone"; you can always recover it by clicking the History tab at the top of the article, and finding your edits there. HTH, Mathglot (talk) 00:04, 26 October 2018 (UTC)